All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday.

Beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real.

If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything.

I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.

Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play.

If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.